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"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) History Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford History
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W History "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle History
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning History Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde History
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) History Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad History
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra History "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos History May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde History
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker History "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) History
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) History We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) History
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar History Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley History
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) History Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland History
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun History I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) History
